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To quote Thatcher, “this is no time to go wobbly” , with regard to the sanctions from the US against the EU.
#eu #usa #geopolitics @…

From their debut 1980 album
⭐️I Just Can't Stop It,
the wonderful Birmingham
ska-reggae outfit,
best known for their hit
⭐️Mirror In The Bathroom,
was among the 2 Tone label's finest bands
(alongside ❤️The Specials).
They released this upbeat and unambiguous protest against the Conservative prime minister Margaret Thatcher after her first year in office.
Although she stayed in power for more than a decade,
changing the pol…

The Beat – Stand Down Margaret — Song Bar
Song of the Day:  A political, but prescient number from their debut 1980 album I Just Can't Stop It, this wonderful Birmingham ska-reggae outfit, best known for their hit Mirror In The Bathroom, was among the 2 Tone label's finest

Well worth reading this longish piece by Paula Symons
I came here in 1988 from the UK to get away from Thatcher. Then I watched at a distance as they tore themselves away from Europe - and look what that did to them.
I have always wondered why Quebec keeps harping on separation when clearly remaining has worked well.

The Case for Sticking Around - Alberta Views
I’m calling on us to do something un-Canadian: and stand up for the country we love—and reject the idea of a sovereign Alberta

Stop throwing that bloody Thatcher at me!
#TOTP

Woah. I just found out that Sanae Takaichi wrote a book in 1994 about Hitler's electoral strategy as a blueprint for winning elections in the modern age, with *citations from Mein Kampf*. She also posed with a Holocaust denier in 2014.
https://www.france…

Sanae Takaichi, l'ultraconservatrice qui se rêve en "Dame de fer” du Japon
La cheffe de file du Parti libéral-démocrate Sanae Takaichi est devenue mardi la première femme à accéder à la tête du gouvernement au Japon. Cette figure de la droite dure nippone, admiratrice de Margaret Thatcher et ex-batteuse dans un groupe de métal, est parvenue à s’imposer sur une scène politique très masculine, non sans choquer par ses positions ultraconservatrices et ses accointances révisionnistes.